the medical examiner yesterday, with graphic and clinical detail how the victims died and the mother, jennifer, was strangled and sexually assaulted, according to the medical examiner, and died from her injuries, before the men poured the gas over the victims, purportedly and set them on fire and the medical examiner said the mother was burned beyond recognition and still had ligatures on her ankles and wrists when the body was brought in for a taeps and the 17 -- autopsy and the 17-year-old, freed herself but died of smoke inhalation and exposed to fire, testified the chief medical examiner before she died and the 11-year-old was sexually assaulted and died of smoke inhalation as she was tied up to her bed by those ropes. bill: difficult to listen to, laura ingle. good luck with that trial. heavy, heavy stuff. laura ingle live in new haven, connecticut. martha. martha: all right, that is a horrific story, we have a lot of news we're covering now and one of the stories we spoke about earlier today, was an appearance scheduled for this morning by steven colbert on capitol hill. and now there is